Our work - increasing markets for farmers, incubating farms, training new farmers - is aimed toward supporting the building blocks of a new food economy. An economy that has shorter supply chains - from local farms to packing and production facilities to retailers - a shorter distance from farm to fork that enhances food security. Since 2002, NOFFN has helped catalyze projects that fill critical gaps in the system while also providing support, capacity-building, and technical assistance to a wide-range of emerging agricultural projects